نویسندگان
1 دانشجوی دکترای آموزش بهداشت و ارتقاء سلامت، کمیته تحقیقات دانشجویی، گروه آموزش بهداشت و ارتقاء سلامت، دانشکده بهداشت، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تبریز، تبریز، ایران
2 کارشناس ارشد آموزش بهداشت، شبکه بهداشت و درمان ایلام، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایلام، ایلام، ایران
3 کارشناس ارشد ارزیابی فناوری سلامت، مرکز تحقیقات سرطان، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران
4 کارشناس ارشد مدیریت شهرى و کارشناس مسئول اداره کل سلامت شهردارى تهران، تهران، ایران
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Introduction: Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers around the world as well as in Iran. Identifying the farmers' perceptions about skin cancer might be effective in the design of intervention programs for preventing it. Therefore, this study aimed to survey the threat appraisal to skin cancer in the farmers of the Chaldoran County in Iran.
Materials & Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 238 subjects were selected from the farmers’ rural regions by multistage random sampling. To collect the data, a reliable and valid questionnaire based on protection motivation theory structures was used. Descriptive statistics (frequency, relative Frequency, mean and standard deviation) and analytical statistics (One Way ANOVA) was used to analyze the date. The level of significance was considered less than 0.05.
Results: The mean ± standard deviation age of participants was 35.40±8.79 years old. A statistically significant association between perceived threat with education level (p=0.001) and threat appraisal with education (p=0.04) was observed (p<0.05). 50.04% of subjects had a low threat appraisal to skin cancer. Perceived severity was high only in 15.5% of the individuals. 23.1% of farmers had high extrinsic and intrinsic rewards to inconsistent behaviours of skin cancer. Threat appraisal status of farmers showed that 119 people had unacceptable levels; 26 people had borderline levels; and 99 people had acceptable level behaviours.
Conclusion: The findings of this study indicated that farmers did not consider themselves to be vulnerable to skin cancer. Therefore, design and implementations of appropriate intervention programs to inform the farmers seems essential in the relevant field.
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